The dynamics of quantum criticality revealed by quantum Monte Carlo and holography

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 361-366

  Witczak Krempa, William ^a   Sørensen, Erik S ^b   Sachdev, Subir ^c  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; FERMI SURFACE; HOLOGRAPHY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM CRITICAL POINTS; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; SUPERFLUID-INSULATOR; TWO-DIMENSIONAL LATTICES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84899935173     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2913     Document Type: Article

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